Apple knew you'd love your AirPods. They knew you'd have to, or else.

Futurists hate wires: Wires can tangle. They are messy, inelegant, inefficient. To Silicon Valley’s technologists, they are the enemy. Everything that can be made wireless must be made wireless — wireless charging, wireless connectivity. Wires are ripe for disruption.

When Apple announced in 2016 that its new iPhone would not have a headphone port, there was widespread anger; no wonder Apple’s marketing chief Phil Schiller described that decision as an act of “courage.” The company wasn’t giving its customers the option to remove another wire from their life — it was forcing it down their throats.

Particularly galling was that customers who wanted to continue to use wired headphones in new Apple devices had to shell out for a special adapter (which, at least until 2018, Apple wouldn’t let third-party manufacturers make).

source: nbcnews.com